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Drinking Perrier Instead of Soda

If you are looking for a way to cut soda out of your diet, but miss the fizzy content of soda, then viable alternative might be drinking Perrier water. I used to love buying little Perrier waters a few years back, but I had stopped doing that because I felt I should always fill up a water container to take with me. However, the truth is I quickly become bored of just drinking plain old water, even when I put lemon in it. So what is a good alternative if you do not want to resort to drinking soda, but would still like a little bit of carbonation.

There are many carbonated waters on the market, but I have always had a soft spot for Perrier. Years ago I used to enjoy taking my niece and nephew to a convenience store near their house, and I would always by them a dollar toy. When I was buying them a toy I would also get a Perrier or a Clearly Canadian Water, but the former was always my favorite.

As I said previously a few years had gone by since I had been drinking Perrier water because I was trying to bring a water container with me each day, I found over the last few months I had fallen in the bad habit of drinkinjg soda again. One day I was going in the local convenience store as usual to find a Coke, and I happened to spot the grapefruit flavored Perrier water. I think this grapefruit carbonated water is my favorite, but I also like the Citron flavored, which is lemon in English.

The price of a 16 oz Perrier water bottle is $1.49 at most convenience stores in California, but sodas such as Coke and Pepsi are often a $1.89 for one 20 oz bottle. A 20 oz bottle of soda has 240 calories, whereas the 16 oz bottle of Perrier water has zero calories, so I know which choice is better for me. For one bottle of soda or water you have to pay a CRV of 5 cents, which is basically our state incentive to get people to recycle the bottles to get this money back. This is why you see a lot of homeless people walking around town collecting empty water bottles and soda because they can make a little bit of cash for food. So the next time you get a water bottle or soda bottle, might as well give it to someone who is collecting these out of trash cans. I would rather give my empty bottles to them as recycling the bottles is a hassle for me, and it does not go in the landfill this way. I digress, but just wanted to share my renewed love with a sparkly water that is better than soda. I am not affiliated with Perrier, by the way, but I just happen to love their flavored waters.

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Well on the west coast we call all sugary carbonated drinks soda, and I actually prefer that word usage, but I see what you mean. It is the calling of the soda pop by the "pop" that crates my crate, and when people did that in the Midwest it felt funny. I remember they used that word a lot in Kansas. I think it is a cultural thing thorough out the country with which word is used. I heard in some parts of the country all the sodas Coke, even when these are Pepis or generic. The Perrier water sells in bulk for cheap at Walmart here, so maybe I will buy that next time.

Perrier is nice, but for me it is still too expensive. I used to buy it when money was less tight. Now I buy a 24 pack of club soda, instead. It is pretty good, and has nothing in it but carbonated water.

I wonder why people call drinks like Coke soda, when what I drink is actually soda water.